Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2017
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/ajil.2017.1
Abstract
On August 29, 2016, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Tribunal) sentenced a corporate media enterprise and one of its employees for contemptuously interfering with the Tribunal’s proceedings in Ayyash, a prosecution concerning the February 2005 terrorist attack that killed former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.1 The contempt decision is significant for two reasons: (1) it adopts an expansive definition of the crime of contempt to restrict a journalist’s freedom of expression; and (2) it is the first international judicial decision to hold a corporate entity criminally responsible.
Disciplines
Criminal Law | International Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Monica Hakimi,
In Re Akhbar Beirut & Al Amin,
111
Am. J. Int'l L.
132
(2017).
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Comments
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